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We Built This City: Philadelphia tells of the history of Philadelphia, its association with the Lenape Native American tribe, William Penn, how it got its nickname "The City of Brotherly Love," and the role it played as the last stop on the Underground Railroad. Features popular locations to visit while in Philadelphia like Independence Hall, the Rocky Statue and Geno's cheesesteaks. Also included are historical and current pictures of Philadelphia,...
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"The Mind as Nature" by Loren Eiseley is a profound and thought-provoking exploration of the intricate relationship between the human mind and the natural world. Eiseley, a renowned anthropologist, philosopher, and naturalist, combines his deep scientific knowledge with poetic prose to delve into the mysteries of consciousness, evolution, and our place in the cosmos.
In this compelling work, Eiseley reflects on the nature of human thought and its...
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We Built This City: Chicago reviews the history of the land before Chicago was settled by German immigrants, the World's Fair, the Winnebago Native American tribe, the Great Chicago Fire, and the Chicago River. Interesting sights to see mentioned are Wrigley Field, the Willis Tower, and Shedd Aquarium. It also features historical and current pictures of Chicago, a chronology of events from 1673 to today, suggested reading for further research, a glossary...
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We Built This City: New York City reveals the history of the land that is now New York City starting with the Lenape Native American tribe, and the immigrants from the Netherlands who settled there and called it New Amsterdam. Learn how New York City got its nickname "The City that Never Sleeps," the fur wars, the Harlem Renaissance, the great building boom of high rises and skyscrapers, the Twin Tower Memorial and more! It also features interesting...
65) We Built This City: Los Angeles: History, People, Landmarks - Hollywood, Dodger Stadium, Chinatown
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We Built This City: Los Angeles teaches the history of the land that is now Los Angeles, the Tongva people, the immigrants that helped settle Los Angeles, and the city's metamorphosis into an entertainment and cinematic hub. It also features interesting sights to see when visiting Los Angeles like Dodger Stadium, the Hollywood sign and Chinatown. Also included are historical and current pictures of Los Angeles, a chronology of events from 1771 to...
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Harold C. Urey (1893–1981), whose discoveries lie at the foundation of modern science, was one of the most famous American scientists of the twentieth century. Born in rural Indiana, his evolution from small-town farm boy to scientific celebrity made him a symbol and spokesman for American scientific authority. Because he rose to fame alongside the prestige of American science, the story of his life reflects broader changes in the social and intellectual...
67) Influenza
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Have you ever heard of the Spanish Flu, the greatest tragedy in human history?Have you ever imagined living with a new pandemic on your skin?Before the coronavirus, AIDS, and Ebola, few people knew the true story of the 1918 pandemic, the deadliest virus of all time-even more so than the famous "Black Plague."Knowing the history of one of the worst pandemics of all time can help you better understand the present and future of human diseases, why...
68) Black Soil
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"Black Soil is a novel written by Josephine Donovan, which tells the story of a young woman named Ella Mae Turner, who is forced to confront the harsh realities of racism and discrimination in the American South during the 1930s. Ella Mae is a strong-willed and determined character, who is determined to make a better life for herself and her family, despite the many obstacles that stand in her way. The novel is set in the fictional town of Cottondale,...
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A new edition of a classic work revealing the little-known history of African Americans in New York City before Emancipation.
The popular understanding of the history of slavery in America almost entirely ignores the institution's extensive reach in the North. But the cities of the North were built by-and became the home of-tens of thousands of enslaved African Americans, many of whom would continue to live there as free people after Emancipation.
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"Life of Robert Louis Stevenson" by Sir Graham Balfour is an authoritative and richly detailed biography that delves into the fascinating life and enduring legacy of the beloved Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Known for his classic works such as "Treasure Island," "Kidnapped," and "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," Stevenson's life was as adventurous and varied as his stories.
Written by Stevenson's cousin and close friend, Sir Graham...
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Deliberation, in recent years, has emerged as a form of civic engagement worth reclaiming. In this persuasive book, Sandra M. Gustafson combines historical literary analysis and political theory in order to demonstrate that current democratic practices of deliberation are rooted in the civic rhetoric that flourished in the early American republic.
Though the U.S. Constitution made deliberation central to republican self-governance, the ethical emphasis...
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In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the 1990s-and the dawn of the Internet-computers started to represent a very different kind of world: a collaborative and digital utopia modeled on the communal ideals of the hippies who so vehemently rebelled against the cold war...
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"Life of Robert Louis Stevenson" by Sir Graham Balfour is an authoritative and richly detailed biography that delves into the fascinating life and enduring legacy of the beloved Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Known for his classic works such as "Treasure Island," "Kidnapped," and "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," Stevenson's life was as adventurous and varied as his stories.
Written by Stevenson's cousin and close friend, Sir Graham...
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Explores the surprisingly rich early history of US-China trade and its unexpected impact on the developing republic.
The economic and geographic development of the early United States is usually thought of in trans-Atlantic terms, defined by entanglements with Europe and Africa. In Trading Freedom, Dael A. Norwood recasts these common conceptions by looking to Asia, making clear that from its earliest days, the United States has been closely...
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We Built This City: Boston reveals the history of Boston, its influential people, and origins of its famous landmarks. Learn about the Algonquin tribe who lived on the land before the immigrants came, the role Boston played in the Revolutionary War, the history of the Boston Marathon, building Fenway Park, and the "Big Dig" reconstruction of the road system. It also features historical and current pictures of Boston, a chronology of events from 1614...
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The civil rights era was a time of pervasive change in American political and social life. Among the decisive forces driving change were lawyers, who wielded the power of law to resolve competing concepts of order and equality and, in the end, to hold out the promise of a new and better nation.
The Search for Justice is a look the role of the lawyers throughout the period, focusing on one of the central issues of the time:...
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If you were looking for a philosopher likely to appeal to Americans, Friedrich Nietzsche would be far from your first choice. After all, in his blazing career, Nietzsche took aim at nearly all the foundations of modern American life: Christian morality, the Enlightenment faith in reason, and the idea of human equality. Despite that, for more than a century Nietzsche has been a hugely popular-and surprisingly influential-figure in American thought...
78) The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight
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A potent re-examination of America's history of public disinvestment in mass transit.
Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century. But as Nicholas Dagen Bloom shows in The Great American Transit Disaster, our transit networks are so bad for a very simple reason: we wanted it this way.
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A quarter-century after its first publication, A Shopkeeper's Millennium remains a landmark work--brilliant both as a new interpretation of the intimate connections among politics, economy, and religion during the Second Great Awakening, and as a surprising portrait of a rapidly growing frontier city. The religious revival that transformed America in the 1820s, making it the most militantly Protestant nation on earth and spawning reform movements...
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In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches that he would later develop into a series of illustrations and paintings, including the culminating painting, Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, Virginia.This innovative book uses Crowe's paintings to explore the texture of the slave trade in Richmond, Charleston, and New Orleans, the evolving...
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